Time for action – creating an animated content viewer

We'll start again by adding the underlying markup and styling.

  1. The underlying markup for the content viewer should be as follows:
    <div id="slider"> <div id="viewer"> <img id="image1" src="img/amstrad.jpg" alt="Amstrad CPC 472"> <img id="image2" src="img/atari.jpg" alt="Atari TT030"> <img id="image3" src="img/commodore16.jpg" alt="Commodore 64"> <img id="image4" src="img/commodore128.jpg" alt="Commodore 128"> <img id="image5" src="img/spectrum.jpg" alt="Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2"> </div> <ul id="ui"> <li class="hidden" id="prev"><a href="" title="Previous">&laquo;</a></li> <li><a href="#image1" title="Image 1" class="active">Image 1</a></li> <li><a href="#image2" title="Image 2">Image 2</a></li> ...

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